Dropping dpatch for bookworm
There are only 24 packages left using dpatch and the vast majority of remaining
uses are packages which haven't seen a maintainer upload for a decade or longer.
Some of these have existing "please migrate to source format 3(quilt)" bugs already
and in the interest of more streamlined packaging workflows and eliminating technical
debt I think it's time to remove dpatch for bookworm.
So unless there's objections, I'd bump existing bugs to RC and file bugs where
they don't exist. And anything that doesn't get fixed/NMUd/removed can then
be removed along with dpatch before the bookworm freeze.
Breakdown of remaining packages grouped by the year they've seen their last
maintainer upload:
2006:
efax
vdk2
2007:
syrep
tapecalc
2008:
cryptcat
flexbackup
xcal
2009:
redet
spell
2010:
elscreen
myspell
scim-canna
scim-skk
vsdump
xxgdb
2011:
bopm
gkrellm-x86info
ibam
lifelines
2013:
cadaver
dvbsnoop
2018:
mgetty
2019:
libdumbnet
2021:
qmc
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